A photographer who brought his drone along on a cruise trip discovered a group of polar bears living in an abandoned Soviet polar research station. <\/p>\n
Vadim Makhorov has taken several expeditions to the North Pole and is currently there right now. While on his latest trip, he flew his drone out to Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea and piloted it close to the polar bears. Some of them showed interest in the flying camera, with one even snapping at it, but most of them were indifferent. <\/p>\n
Makhorov is traveling on the Spirit of Enderby (Professor Khromov) ship and says that near the polar bear residence is a huddle of walruses. He calls it an \u201cinteresting neighborhood.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cPolar bears live here on an abandoned weather station,\u201d Makhorov writes on Instagram. \u201cNearby is a nest of walruses and also whales swimming. Bears enjoy comfort and coziness; they treat the buildings as shelter, safe from wind and rain. And in sunny weather, you can lie on your belly in the yard.\u201d <\/p>\n
Makhorov says that the bears aren\u2019t afraid of the drone and are more frightened by other human activity, like the noise and smell of boats, or voices of people. <\/p>\n
\u201cI try hard not to annoy animals. If I see that a bear is afraid of a drone, I don\u2019t chase it, I take the drone away,\u201d he says on Instagram. \u201cBut this rarely happens, because I fly to the animals very slowly, allowing them to get used to an unusual guest.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Russian photographer also expressed frustration at people falsely calling his images AI-generated. \u201cIt hurts me deep down,\u201d Makhorov says. He calls the allegations a \u201cdevaluation\u201d of his work, adding that he has spent years honing his photography skills and ventured into the unwelcoming Arctic to get these shots. <\/p>\n
Makhorov adds that although the bears may look \u201ccute and friendly\u201d, he warns they are \u201cextremely dangerous predators.\u201d After all, polar bears won\u2019t only try to gain access to abandoned buildings; they also have a habit of trying to break into human-occupied polar bases, and researchers have to put bars and spikes on the windows to prevent them from getting in. <\/p>\n
The bears on Kolyuchin Island have been photographed before: Dmitry Kokh shared photos of the bears<\/a> in 2022 which won Nature Photographer of the Year 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer who brought his drone along on a cruise trip discovered a group of polar bears living…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[35160,113159,228,226,227,19122,229,38011,88,33686,113160,113161],"class_list":{"0":"post-195266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arctic","9":"tag-arcticcircle","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-bears","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-drone","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-naturephotography","18":"tag-northpole","19":"tag-polarbears"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}